Remote Demo Platform Engineer — Self‑Service & Automation

Appfire; España; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote within Spain

Office option in Bilbao

Flexible time off

Job summary

Appfire is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own and optimize the demo infrastructure across its Solutions Group. You will build self-service sandboxes for partners, automate workflows, and partner with Engineering and DevOps to transition prototypes to production.

Strong Atlassian experience and scripting skills are essential for fast-paced collaboration across cross-functional teams. The role offers remote work within Spain with a Bilbao office option, equity eligibility, generous time

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering, ideally supporting a sales engineering, solutions, or presales organization.
• Hands‑on experience administering and provisioning Atlassian Cloud and/or Data Center environments, including Jira, Confluence, and/or Bitbucket.
• Experience building and operating self‑service sandbox or demo environments, including environment lifecycle management and seeded or synthetic data.
• Strong experience with infrastructure automation, scripting such as Python or Bash, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Practical experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience taking ownership of existing tools or prototypes and preparing them for production, including code review, hosting, deployment, and support.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to create clear technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge bases for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across Solutions, Sales Engineering, Product Engineering, and DevOps teams in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the demo estate end to end, including Atlassian instance provisioning, realistic seeded datasets, multi-product reference environments, and environment teardown and refresh.
• Build and maintain self-service sandbox environments that enable Solution Partners to demonstrate Appfire products independently.
• Design and implement automation that reduces technical overhead for Sales Engineering and Solutions Architecture teams and improves time-to-demo.
• Maintain the technical knowledge base supporting security questionnaires, RFPs, and trust center responses.
• Run the Instance Optimization inventory extract and pricing pull supporting Appfire's consolidation assessment.
• Take ownership of field-built prototypes that graduate to production, including code ownership, hosting, deployment, and ongoing support in partnership with Engineering and DevOps.
• Define and enforce technical graduation criteria for prototypes moving from pilot to production, ensuring each solution has clear ownership, hosting, and support models.
• Monitor demo environment health, provisioning performance, and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving technical bottlenecks.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Automation

Python

Bash

Docker

Kubernetes

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Appfire is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own and optimize the demo infrastructure across its Solutions Group. You will build self-service sandboxes for partners, automate workflows, and partner with Engineering and DevOps to transition prototypes to production.

Strong Atlassian experience and scripting skills are essential for fast-paced collaboration across cross-functional teams. The role offers remote work within Spain with a Bilbao office option, equity eligibility, generous time